Current Member
Diana Kim
Hans Kohn Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Politics
Home Institution
Georgetown University
Website
Diana Kim’s research addresses modern state formation, colonialism, and the political construction of vices and vulnerability. At IAS, she will be writing a book on untouchability, which explores the making of a transnational world of untouchable groups in East, Southeast, and South Asia over the past two hundred years, and its hidden contours today.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
– current
Degrees
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2013
Honors
2021
Co-Winner, Giovanni Sartori Book Award, American Political Science Association
2020
Silvers Grant, New York Review of Books/Robert B. Silvers Foundation
Appointments
Georgetown University
2016
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
2013–2016
Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics